My Favorite Product: The Voltage Regulator Module
Kaitlyn pays respects to her favorite Digilent product.
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Introducing the PowerBRICK!
We need more power, Doc! Good thing we have these PowerBRICKs.
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Power Supplies and chipKIT– What Should I Be Looking for?
When using a microcontroller or FPGA, or any electronic component for that matter, you will need access to a source of power. However, when you check out our numerous microcontroller and FPGA projects on our Learn site and Instructables, you’ll notice that most of them use our programming USB cable connected to our computer as a source of power. But what if we wanted to use our chipKIT project somewhere else besides next to the computer? Can we use any source of power? Let’s find out.
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AC to DC conversion
Are you wanting to build something that requires DC power but changing batteries would either be inconvenient or just plain annoying? Here’s a simple how-to for converting AC mains voltage to rectified and regulated DC voltage.
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